In 2024, Friends of Emerald Lake Park secured a grant from Landcare/Melbourne Water to further support the Emerald Lake Park Vegetation Management Project. This grant has allowed weed control works, which entails enlisting contractors to remove Cestrum elgans, large Sycamore Maples, Holly and small-leaved Privet. This is followed by the Friends group micro-weeding, and then planting indigenous species grown by the Helmeted Honeyeater Nursery in Yellingbo. We will be helped by a group from Aligned Leisure to plant the tubestock.

Our group would not be able to implement this project without the support and assistance the Cardinia Shire Natural Reserves Team give us.